It is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, and CMTM is celebrating with a variety of programs and activities! Throughout the month, CMTM will host a series of creative programs highlighting AAPI art and heritage.
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The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine will host a performance by Special Guest Lindz Amer this Sunday, April 2, 2023, at 2 PM. Join Lindz in Maddy’s Theatre for Pride All Year ‘Round!, a musical, magical, memorable journey through LGBTQ+ history!
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The Visiting Artist Series, which began in February 2022 and continues through May 2023, allows visitors to meet and create alongside artists who were chosen through a rigorous application and selection process. Over the course of several weeks, each Visiting Artist hosts “pop-up studios” in MakerSpace. Each artist works in a different medium, supplies base materials, and leads art-making activities where visitors help to produce communal works of art. This March/April, CMTM welcomes fiber artist Juliet Karelsen to the MakerSpace.
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Every spring in Maine, hundreds of thousands of amphibians awaken to leave their underground homes in the pouring rain to make the journey to vernal pools on a night known as Big Night. Join CMTM staff as we celebrate the upcoming spring Big Night with special programming focused on the life cycle of frogs, the importance of vernal pools, and interactive watershed exploration.
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The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine is celebrating Women’s History Month with a series of MakerSpace programs highlighting Mighty Women Makers. Join us each Wednesday in March to learn about innovative women in the arts, test new materials, and create amazing artwork of your own!
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Celebrate Black History Month and follow in the footsteps of the most revolutionary masters of art!
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On Saturday and Sunday, February 11 and 12, from 9 am - 4 pm, CMTM will host a series of programs devoted to LOVE! This two-day celebration will include a variety of special activities centered around creating, giving, and loving. Design Love Day cards in the MakerSpace, contribute to a collaborative LOVE mural, and deliver cards to CMTM’s aquarium animals. There is so much to LOVE about this weekend full of fun!
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It is time to stomp, tromp, and romp around the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine (CMTM) as we celebrate #Dinovember and all things prehistoric for Dinosaur Day(s), November 20 and 21, 2022!
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